Chapter 10 in the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem, Read original poem The short drive to Our Lady of Sympatico, just a little south and east of Española, is long enough for Jake to consider, then reconsider, how it is …
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Chapter 9 from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem, read original poem New Mexico moon has a habit of getting lost on its way to May mornings causing dawn to be dark, dank, and dangerously disconcerting. On such mornings, one …
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Chapter 8 from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem Jake’s awake and dressed in his cycling regalia ahead of Emelia’s five o’clock alarm. How can he sleep with everything that’s happened? How can anyone? What went down last night is …
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Chapter 7 from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read the companion poem “Barkeep,” Miguel belligerently shouts, holding his hand above his head impatiently snapping fingers. “Tequila, and don’t forget the lime; you forget a man’s lime he maybe thinks you don’t like …
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Chapter 6 in R.M. Dolin’s novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem, read original poem Why does night encase emptiness as if we are one? Why does light beyond the edge of darkness tease at attainability? Who are these men and how did we …
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Chapter 5 from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem, read original poem The Al Azar’s subsumed by a sublime silence pensively waiting for what happens next, and as surely as the madness of May pushes cast-offs into the bar with …
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Chapter four from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is To be Done“ Half-an-hour into poker it’s already Dominic’s second deal. The two Mexicans huddled at the far end of the bar are unsure of protocols, but since the Anglos are still here, they figure they’re …
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Chapter Two from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done”Read companion poem, Read original version “Something’s up,” Jake grouses between demanding draws of cold high desert air. Leaning left, he vectors his gray vintage bike off the poorly paved road, ratchets back to …
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Chapter one from the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done.”Read companion poem, Read original poem It’s late in the season of so much has happened with so much still undone. A season that began with the potential for paradise only to fall with …
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